More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics, Philip Mirowski

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More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics, Philip Mirowski

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Fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides -- Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask : the history of the energy concept -- Body, motion, and value -- Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870 -- Neoclassical economic theory : an irresistible field of force meets an immovable object -- Corruption of the field metaphor, and the retrogression to substance theories of value : Neoclassical production theory -- Ironies of Physics envy -- Universal history is the story of different intonations given to a handful of metaphors

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24 cm.

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xii, 450 pages

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9780521426893

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89009728

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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n

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(OCoLC)19624329

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More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics, Philip Mirowski

Fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides -- Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask : the history of the energy concept -- Body, motion, and value -- Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870 -- Neoclassical economic theory : an irresistible field of force meets an immovable object -- Corruption of the field metaphor, and the retrogression to substance theories of value : Neoclassical production theory -- Ironies of Physics envy -- Universal history is the story of different intonations given to a handful of metaphors